SubscribeIn what even Republicans have called a “coup,” Gov. Jerry Brown’s Prop. 30, a California initiative to raise taxes by roughly $6 billion a year, won with 55 percent of the vote in the November 2012 election. Berkeley’s Ethan Rarick analyzes that rare accomplishment — selling a tax hike — in “Policy Options Journal.”
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Prop. 30 and how to sell a tax hike
January 14, 2013:
Governor vetoes state spending plan
June 16, 2011:
California Gov. Jerry Brown has vetoed a state spending plan that would have deepened the cut in financial support for UC by another $150 million for the coming fiscal year. Brown said the proposal sent to him by the Legislature was not a “balanced solution” for ending California’s long-term fiscal crisis.
